"It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show."

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Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

Jonathan Meiburg

#Knowing Quotes #Church Quotes #May Quotes

“Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her reading. A lover of the word, she discovered through it the love of the Logos, whose beauty fills all of creation. She found the courage to follow the spilled drops of human imagination back to the One who â€˜reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power' (Heb 1:3).”
“Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 12, 2013
“I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.”
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!”
“The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...”
“One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury”
“The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.”
“I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”

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